Shakespeare and Religious Change (Early Modern Literature in History)

Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Note on Spelling Conventions......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction: Shakespeare and Religious Change......Page 16
Part I: Shakespeare and Social History: Religion and the Secular......Page 30
1 Sanctifying the Bourgeoisie: The Cultural Work of The Comedy of Errors......Page 32
2 ‘In a Christian Climate’: Religion and Honor in Richard II......Page 52
Part II: Dramatic Continuities and Religious Change......Page 76
3 William Cecil and the Drama of Persuasion......Page 78
4 The Queen’s Men and the Performance of Allegiance, Conformity, and Difference in Elizabethan Norwich......Page 103
5 Things Newly Performed: The Resurrection Tradition in Shakespeare’s Plays......Page 125
6 Staging Allegiance, Re-membering Trials: King Henry VIII and the Blackfriars Theater......Page 148
Part III: Religious Identities......Page 166
7 ‘Mirth in Heaven’: Religion and Festivity in As You Like It......Page 168
8 Speaking Daggers: Shakespeare’s Troubled Ministers......Page 191
9 Othello in the Wilderness: How did Shakespeare Use his Bible?......Page 211
Part IV: Shakespeare and the Changing Theater: Religion or the Secular......Page 230
10 Author, King, and Christ in Shakespeare’s Histories......Page 232
11 The Secular Theater......Page 253
A......Page 276
B......Page 277
C......Page 279
E......Page 281
F......Page 282
G......Page 283
H......Page 284
K......Page 285
M......Page 286
O......Page 288
P......Page 289
R......Page 291
S......Page 292
T......Page 294
W......Page 295
Z......Page 296